A short update to 2 earlier notes ( A & B ) on the new book "The Dark Side: The Inside Story of How The War on Terror Turned into a War on American Ideals" by Jane Mayer
Via Andrew Sullivan at The Atlantic, Jane Mayer's response to Professor Seligman's denial of any complicity in the Bush Administrations trip into the underworld.
An aside: Whenever I have to remind myself of the absurdity of a moral (?) government stooping to torture - enough, eh, with the nonsense unspeak phrase "enhanced interrogating methods" christ I thought PC crap was dead - I read Vladimir Bukovsky's essay "Torture's Long Shadow". I particularly like the Stalin joke with which he start's his essay:
One nasty morning Comrade Stalin discovered that his favorite pipe was missing. Naturally, he called in his henchman, Lavrenti Beria, and instructed him to find the pipe. A few hours later, Stalin found it in his desk and called off the search. "But, Comrade Stalin," stammered Beria, "five suspects have already confessed to stealing it."
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